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Post by chadwilliam on Oct 24, 2019 12:03:05 GMT -5
Those recent DC reprint reproductions are excellently done. I hope they keep going. I'd love to get the silver age Riddler and Penguin first appearances, which are two that I don't have. I figure they have had to do a Flash of Two Worlds reprint and I need to track that one down. I'm thinking of dealing off some originals with these type of replacements, I have a few to fill in for some I did not have like Hulk #181. Detective 359 featuring "The Million-Dollar Debut of Batgirl" will be coming out in January. I was surprised to see Batman 181 reprinted since DC's been playing it fairly safe with these reprints - releasing only those comics which have been reprinted over and over again - while I don't think the back-up in Batman 181 has been reprinted anywhere else in color. Unfortunately, the scan was pretty bad. In case you're not aware, DC will also be putting out some dollar reprints which presumably won't have the cardstock covers the Facsimiles have and exact contents such as letter pages and ads, but the line does seem to boast a better range of reprints than the Facsimiles. Brave and the Bold 197 and Detective 554 are interesting choices.
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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 24, 2019 16:04:09 GMT -5
I have all the Man Wolf appearance but for the Peter Parker/Spectacular Annual, and only an e-version for the Giant-Size co-starring Morbius and Spider-Man. Also Marvel Tales reprints for the first two appearances... almost worth getting the collected edition for the really well colored cover and classy Marvel Premiere version of his logo! I have all the Tigras too except for the Giant-Size (but again an e-version). P.S.: Just added four of the facsimiles to an order, Batman #181, 251, Giant-Size X-Men #1 and Incr. Hulk #181. Don't you love it when: you get a 1974 Marvel comic cheap because of what looks like a huge smudgey fingerprint on the front cover... but it's super shiney cover paper and it wipes right off! So well you can't tell it was even ever there! Don't you just hate it when: you get a 1974 Marvel comic cheap that looks a number of grades better than what it's sold as... but the 'Marvel value Stamp' is clipped out. Augh, I hate those stupid things. Oh well, you win one you lose one. So far out of a few dozen early '70s Marvels I've only ended up with two that have the stamps clipped out, and I hardly overpaid, so...
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Post by junkmonkey on Oct 24, 2019 16:19:28 GMT -5
And the last book of my birthday binge arrived yesterday. Aariciaia Volume 14 of the Thorgal saga. And a break from continuity - in volume 13, 'Entre Terre et Lumière', Thorgal (the last survivor of an alien spaceship crashed on earth and bought by the Vikings who discovered him) was in South America, with his wife and kids and a one legged friend, having been lured there by the just plain evil (but pure dead sexy) Kriss de Valnor. All sorts of shenanigans ensued with his son being a reincarnation of a god, alien artefacts kindling psychic powers, and torture by giant geode. This book has four short stories all about the childhood of Aaricia (Thorgal's wife) and how her life intertwined with his - they grew up together in the same village. And tender, sweet little stories they are too. In the next book Thorgal goes time travelling.
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Post by Confessor on Oct 24, 2019 21:46:10 GMT -5
Don't you just hate it when: you get a 1974 Marvel comic cheap that looks a number of grades better than what it's sold as... but the 'Marvel value Stamp' is clipped out. Augh, I hate those stupid things. Arrgghhh, the accursed Marvel Value Stamp. The bane of all Bronze Age comic collectors.
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Post by junkmonkey on Oct 25, 2019 20:00:20 GMT -5
You know I don't think I have EVER seen one of those cut out. Something to do with being in the UK where there was probably no point.
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Post by Crimebuster on Oct 26, 2019 0:40:41 GMT -5
I think the only comic I have ever bought that was missing the Marvel Value Stamp was... ...I mean, do I even have to say it? It was Incredible Hulk #181, of course. This was a long time ago. I was pretty sharp at the speculation game in my earlier days, and when this book first started really breaking out, I was on it. I found a copy at a shop. The guy wanted $12, but on a hunch, I asked to look through it first. Sure enough, it was missing the freaking stamp. He let me have it for $6.
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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 26, 2019 13:17:26 GMT -5
I have just a Thor #223 and now a Captain Marvel #34 with clipped 'stamps'... neither was an important issue to me like others in the runs were, so I am fine with both, ads or text on the other side of the page... they look very nice otherwise... if I could find a dirt cheap coverless copy of either one might even switch just the one page? It was an evil plot! People could get a book from Marvel in which to paste them... oy vey!
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Post by The Captain on Oct 26, 2019 13:56:37 GMT -5
I have a handful of books with the Marvel Value Stamp cut out, usually buying them unwittingly back before I was really diligent about looking over every page in the book before purchasing.
However, I did buy one with the MVS missing intentionally for strategic economic reasons, that being my copy of Daredevil #111, which is the first appearance of Silver Samurai. At the time I bought it, the price was spiking due to his appearance in one the X-Men movies (Wolverine?) and I wasn't in the mood to drop $30+ on it, as I was just looking to fill one of the last holes in my DD collection. One of our local stores was having their annual anniversary sale and they had this copy marked at $4 with a 40% discount. I looked at it, and the missing stamp doesn't affect the story, as it backs on an ad page, so I got that book for $2.50 with tax.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2019 17:30:33 GMT -5
I have just a Thor #223 and now a Captain Marvel #34 with clipped 'stamps'... neither was an important issue to me like others in the runs were, so I am fine with both, ads or text on the other side of the page... they look very nice otherwise... if I could find a dirt cheap coverless copy of either one might even switch just the one page? It was an evil plot! People could get a book from Marvel in which to paste them... oy vey! I have no knowledge of this ... interesting and thanks for posting this.
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Post by Crimebuster on Oct 27, 2019 22:33:44 GMT -5
There are people that collect these still - the stamp book, and the stamps. Blasphemy, I know, but true.
I saw a really great project a while ago where someone had a sketchbook they were bringing to conventions and getting original art reworkings of all 100 Marvel Value Stamps by current artists. It was pretty sweet.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2019 5:29:30 GMT -5
Sunday was the 10th year for Champion City Comic Con here in town, and I spent the afternoon before work digging through stuff and attending the charity auction finding a bunch of stuff to take home with me... First a couple of volumes of Hal Foster Tarzan... and a collection of early Phantom strips and the Byron Preiss edition of illustrated Harlan Ellison tales (I had found the Zelazny volume earlier this year) and a little bit of Batmania... the lunchbox was from the charity auction and the paperback is a novelization of the Adam West Batman feature film... a couple of $5 trades (hard to pass up a Marvel Epic collection for $5) and some 50 cent bin fare... 2 of the handful issues of Zot I needed, some Trek, a little Hanna Barbera goodness, some Alex Ross goodness and a Phantom Stranger appearance I hadn't read. This was one of the finds I was most excited to read, the complete 4 issue run of Stephen Bissette's Tyrant, it was $5 for the set... and a bunch of Kitchen Sink Spirit and Spirit: The Origin Years issues all from one dealer's dollar bins... more to come... -M
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2019 5:41:17 GMT -5
Some local small press stuff, some I bought directly from the creators, others I picked up in the charity auction... creators include Victor Dandridge Jr.(former talent coordinator for Wizard World), Aaron Lindeman, Chad Strohl, Stephen Hines, and others I found the last of the three Gray Morrow issues of Madhouse that I needed... and a Bronze Age Hawkman appearance I didn't have and the Marvel Super-Heroes issue featuring Ka-Zar... The Millennium Edition reprint of Flash Comics #1... More dollar bin fare... some DC Trek... some Cheval Noir issues, DHP, Red Circle heroes, Gene Day's Black Zeppelin and AC's Black Diamond... a miscellany of stuff that interested me, some Tarzan, Brothers of the Spear, Trek, etc. including the final issue of the 90s Nick Fury series which was the only issue of it I didn't have... more miscellaneous dollar bin issues, more Red Circle heroes, the last 2 issues of the original Night Force series I needed, some Charlton horror, and a handful of issues of Hercules Unbound... and some Super Powers, misc. DC stiff and a King Reader featuring Prince Valiant and Flash Gordon... more to come... -M
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2019 5:47:34 GMT -5
I was in a bit of a Batman mood after finding the novel and the lunchbox, and found a bunch of Moench Detectives in a dollar bin, as well as the Harlan Ellison issue of Detective. The Catwoman series was a 4-issue set for $5, and I finally broke down and bought Batman #400 again. I love the Sienkewicz cover and I bought this issue off the stands, but had sold off all my Batstuff before I moved to Ohio in '03, so when I found a copy at a really good price I picked it up... The Adventurers series always intrigued me when it came out but it was one of those "hot" books of the b&w boom in the mid-80s that got overpriced quickly and I never picked them up, but there was a chunk of them in a dealer's dollar bin today, so I snagged a bunch... and lastly, I found all the issues of Action Comics Weekly I was missing in the dollar bins, so finished off that run... so all in all, a good show. -M
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 28, 2019 6:08:57 GMT -5
I like the Tyrant books you got and I still have to fill in the Red Circle superhero comics that Rich Buckler started for them. Nice bunch of books, man.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 28, 2019 9:29:16 GMT -5
Sunday was the 10th year for Champion City Comic Con here in town, and I spent the afternoon before work digging through stuff and attending the charity auction finding a bunch of stuff to take home with me... First a couple of volumes of Hal Foster Tarzan... and a little bit of Batmania... the lunchbox was from the charity auction and the paperback is a novelization of the Adam West Batman feature film... -M Those Tarzan books are sweet. And can be pretty expensive. I've got that lunchbox somewhere. I honestly can't remember its vintage, so it was either purchased at the height of '89 Batmania and is in a box somewhere or it was bought for one of my sons and is hanging around the house.
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